Dr. Frank Labella
Professor Emeritus
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Canada
Biography
He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Research Interest
My research over the years has been in several areas: Neuropharmacology; Narcotic drugs and endorphins; Mechanisms of general anesthesia; Neuroendocrinology; Neurochemistry; Neurotoxicology; Digitalis drugs; Receptor pharmacology; Aging; Cytochrome P450; Histamine as a second messenger; Novel technology to measure electromagnetic radiation.
Publications
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Displacement of histamine from liver cells and cell components by ligands for cytochromes P450. Brandes LJ, Queen GM, LaBella FS. J Cell Biochem. 2002;85(4):820-4.
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NK cell recognition and killing of melanoma cells is controlled by multiple activating receptor-ligand interactions. J Innate Immun. 2011;3(4):365-73.
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Immunosenescence: limitations of natural killer cell-based cancer immunotherapy. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2017 Feb;66(2):233-245.
